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Examiner: Yvonne FindlayModerator: Trevor Black

Rationale

Learning is about building connections between knowledge, skills and understandings across discipline areas. Learners in the 21st century will need the thinking skills of problem identification & solving, flexibility and the social skills of working in groups to co-operatively define and solve new challenges in creative ways. This course has been designed to build on EDG2001 to assist pre-service teachers extend their ability to make cross connections between content knowledge areas and the thinking skills to solve new problems in a logical and creative manner and to translate these understandings and skills into the development of learning plans for their future students.

Synopsis

This course has three connected components: the content areas associated with four learning areas associated with the Queensland and Australian curriculum documents, the pedagogical approach of inquiry for learning and an integrated curriculum design. The four learning area associated with this course are: Mathematics, Science, Technology, and Health and Physical Education . Literacy skills and ICT integration are central to Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. Students will be required to develop unit learning plans which demonstrate knowledge of appropriate curriculum documents and the integration of knowledge and skills across learning areas utilising a pedagogy based on inquiry. These plans will need to demonstrate how assessment for and of learning are integrated into the design and proposed delivery of these learning episodes.

Objectives

The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. The assessment item(s) that may be used to assess student achievement of an objective are shown in parenthesis. On completion of this course students will be able to:

demonstrate competence in and appropriate use of language and literacy, including spelling, grammar, punctuation and bibliographic referencing. (All assessments)

Topics

Description

Weighting(%)

1.

Key curriculum documents Years 1-10

10.00

2.

Designing a unit plan

10.00

3.

Integrating mandated assessment tasks

5.00

4.

Science

15.00

5.

Maths

15.00

6.

Technology

15.00

7.

Health and Physical Education

15.00

8.

Integrating ICT and literacy skills into unit plans

15.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from USQ's Online Bookshop (unless otherwise stated). (https://bookshop.usq.edu.au/bookweb/subject.cgi?year=2012&sem=01&subject1=EDG3001)

Student workload requirements

Assessment details

Description

Marks out of

Wtg (%)

Due Date

Notes

ASSIGNMENT 1

40

40

16 Apr 2012

ASSIGNMENT 2

60

60

04 Jun 2012

Important assessment information

Attendance requirements:
ONC: It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities scheduled for them including discussion fora, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration. WEB There are no attendance requirements for this course. However, it is the students' responsibility to participate appropriately in all activities including discussion fora scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.

Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks.

Penalties for late submission of required work:
To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks.

Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course.

Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative assessment items in the course.

Examination information:
There is no examination in this course.

Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
As there are no examinations in this course, there will be no deferred or supplementary examinations.

University Student Policies:
Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene University policies and practices. These policies can be found at http://policy.usq.edu.au.

Assessment notes

APA style is the referencing system required in this course. Students should use APA style in their assignments to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The APA style to be used is defined by the USQ Library's referencing guide. http://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing

Other requirements

Students will require access to e-mail and have Internet access to UConnect for this course.

Students can expect that questions in assessment items in this course may draw upon knowledge and skills that they can reasonably be expected to have acquired before enrolling in the course. This includes knowledge contained in pre-requisite courses and appropriate communication, information literacy, analytical, critical thinking, problem solving or numeracy skills. Students who do not possess such knowledge and skills should not expect to achieve the same grades as those students who do possess them.